Sister M. Kunhildis
Born: September 20, 1936
Entrance: October 08, 1960
Professed: May 03, 1946
Died: September 12, 2025
On the evening of her 89th birthday, the good and merciful GOD took
the cross from her shoulders and called our sister, née Agnes Tappehorn, Hospital Sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis to Himself.
In the cross is salvation,
(Edith Stein)
in the cross is life,
in the cross is hope.
Sister M. Kunhildis was born in Friesoythe in September 1936. In November 1936, Hitler ordered that crosses be removed from schools in the Oldenburg region. This obviously had a profound effect on Agnes Tappehorn. She wanted the key cross from the church in Friesoythe for her death notice. She also always had a good relationship with Our Lady of Bethen. Thus, she lived until the end from the strength of her Catholic faith, which she had come to know and appreciate through her family and her Oldenburg homeland.
At the age of 24, she joined our congregation. Sister M. Kunhildis became a nurse and completed further training as a massage therapist and medical bath attendant. From 1966 to 1989, she worked in physical therapy in Kamp-Lintfort and Meerbusch-Lank in the Rhineland. She was later able to express her creative side when she worked as a night nurse for her elderly sisters in Kamp-Lintfort and at the Maria Hilf retirement home in Telgte. Sister M. Kunhildis lived in Kroge from 2008 onwards. For many years, she lovingly cared for the guests of the convent and took care of the laundry. In recent months, her health had deteriorated, and she wished to devote herself to God, to whom she had made a promise when she took her vows. Sister M. Kunhildis had always had a good relationship with her family. That is why she was very happy to be able to spend the last phase of her life in Kroge. She always enjoyed visits from her relatives. They were with her on the day she died, actually for a birthday visit, which was to be their last. We gratefully bid farewell to Sister M. Kunhildis. We remember her in our prayers and in the celebration of the Eucharist and remain united with her in sisterly love.
